kingdom praxis | a.k.a. eliacín’s blog

TransFORM

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Feliacin.com%2F2009%2F11%2F02%2Ftransform%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘TransFORM’;
addthis_pub = ”;

Turning Grease into Gospel

 
One small bar of soap can spark many reflections—spiritual, sociologic, entropologic and ecologic—according to Claudio Oliver, who has spent 20 years working with the urban poor, and on community development, dental and medical projects, team equipping, and teaching in Curitiba, Brazil. Over the past five years, interviewer Spencer Burke has developed a friendship with Claudio [...]

Making the world again

“Brothers and Sisters:
Humanity lives in the breast every one of us, and, like the heart, prefers the left side. We need to find her; we need to find ourselves.
There is no need to conquer the world. It is enough that we make it again. We. Today.”
- Zapatistas

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Feliacin.com%2F2009%2F03%2F23%2Fmaking-the-world-again%2F’;
[...]

Vocabulary for a New World: Organic Intellectual

As theorized by Gramsci, an Organic intellectual, unlike a traditional intellectual, is a bourgeoisie scholar who cultivates strong roots in his/her community, working to maintain links with local issues and struggles that connect to the people and their experiences. While traditional intellectuals imagine themselves as an autonomous group with an historical presence above and separate from political [...]

Snapping the strings - chains of oppression re-visited

Whenever a movement happens and whites happen to dominate it, that means purposeful, intentional exclusion of others — every time! It couldn’t be that minorities simply weren’t interested, could it? No! We know that those racist bigots — erm, I mean our brothers and sisters in Christ — are out there, burning crosses in their [...]

Disco lives on!

For Catie’s birthday party, we asked friends and family that gifts were not necessary, that it was just a time to celebrate Catie. But as you know there are always people who want to bring gifts, so we asked them to bring creative and homemade ones.  Matthew, one of Catie’s friends, made her this disco [...]

Small act of delicious resistance and creativity

 

 

 

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Feliacin.com%2F2008%2F10%2F16%2Fsmall-act-of-delicious-resistance-and-creativity%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Small+act+of+delicious+resistance+and+creativity’;
addthis_pub = ”;

Vocabulary for a New World - Collectivism

Collectivism is a term used to describe any moral, political, or social outlook, that stresses human interdependence and the importance of a collective, rather than the importance of separate individuals. Collectivists focus on community and society, and seek to give priority to group goals over individual goals.[1] The philosophical underpinnings of collectivism are for some related to holism or organicism - the view that the whole is greater than the [...]

Ideas Request for Alternative Calendar of Activism, Observances and Celebrations

The Mustard Seed Associates team is putting together an Alternative Calendar for 2009, and we want you to be part of it. We would like to highlight ways to celebrate the ordinary events of life–not emphasizing the negative but the positive–and giving them a Christian focus. We want to express and celebrate creativity and move beyond the consumer-oriented [...]

This is what Democracy looks like : The Battle in Seattle

Cut from the footage of over 100 media activists, This is What Democracy Looks Like captures the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. The film marks a turning point in collaborative filmmaking and acheives a scope and vision possible only through the lenses of over 100 cameras.
See full video online.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Feliacin.com%2F2008%2F09%2F19%2Fthis-is-what-democracy-looks-like-the-battle-in-seattle%2F’;
[...]

keep looking »